Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 62 63
Rank change year-on-year -56 +1 -14
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,532 1,856 3,644
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.66% 4.32% 3.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.25% 4.63% 4.42%
Number of salaries quoted 1,064 980 2,733
10th Percentile £48,289 £50,000 £43,049
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £74,870 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.17% +15.18% -16.13%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £83,759
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £103,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £61,206
% change year-on-year -3.57% +14.37% -9.32%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 68,138 40,050 82,452
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.73% 93.30% 84.76%
Number of salaries quoted 44,115 21,094 59,611
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,795 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,648 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.59% +8.45% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +0.96% +4.00% -9.09%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 22 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 22 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -52 1,394 £75,000 - 508
London +4 709 £85,000 - 222
UK excluding London -111 696 £67,500 -3.57% 339
Work from Home -31 652 £70,000 - 281
North of England -58 309 £69,310 -4.40% 106
South East -70 170 £67,500 - 101
North West -63 152 £72,500 - 72
Yorkshire -21 101 £69,310 -7.43% 19
Midlands -92 73 £67,750 +0.37% 35
South West -94 64 £52,500 -23.39% 46
North East +11 56 £65,000 -9.72% 15
West Midlands -54 52 £77,500 +10.71% 20
East of England -23 40 £60,100 -3.84% 16
Scotland -75 30 £62,500 -20.70% 11
East Midlands -77 20 £66,000 +5.60% 15
Northern Ireland -30 9 £62,500 +25.00% 20
Wales -43 8 £53,171 +2.25% 8
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 27 (1.76%) Apache Spark
2 17 (1.11%) Confluence
3 14 (0.91%) Apache
3 14 (0.91%) IIS
3 14 (0.91%) OpenStack
4 13 (0.85%) CMS
5 12 (0.78%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 11 (0.72%) JBoss
7 7 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
8 6 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 6 (0.39%) WordPress
9 5 (0.33%) Drupal
9 5 (0.33%) WebSphere
10 4 (0.26%) Camunda
10 4 (0.26%) GeoServer
11 3 (0.20%) Liferay
11 3 (0.20%) nginx
12 2 (0.13%) Appian
12 2 (0.13%) NServiceBus
12 2 (0.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (0.52%) MS Visio
2 7 (0.46%) Maya
3 6 (0.39%) PlantUML
4 5 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.20%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
7 1 (0.065%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 5 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.26%) Dynamics AX
2 4 (0.26%) Oracle Retail
2 4 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.13%) Endur
3 2 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.13%) Shopify
4 1 (0.065%) Actimize
4 1 (0.065%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.065%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.065%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.065%) SAP FS
4 1 (0.065%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 822 (53.66%) AWS
2 629 (41.06%) Azure
3 311 (20.30%) GCP
4 251 (16.38%) Serverless
5 152 (9.92%) SaaS
6 126 (8.22%) Azure DevOps
7 124 (8.09%) GitHub
8 118 (7.70%) AWS Lambda
9 107 (6.98%) Amazon S3
10 94 (6.14%) Amazon EKS
11 85 (5.55%) AWS CloudFormation
12 71 (4.63%) Amazon ECS
12 71 (4.63%) Amazon SQS
13 65 (4.24%) Amazon EC2
14 56 (3.66%) Azure Service Bus
15 48 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 46 (3.00%) Azure AKS
17 45 (2.94%) Datadog
18 42 (2.74%) GitHub Actions
19 41 (2.68%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 60 (3.92%) Broadband
2 22 (1.44%) Network Security
3 10 (0.65%) DNS
3 10 (0.65%) HTTP
3 10 (0.65%) MQTT
4 8 (0.52%) Internet
4 8 (0.52%) VPN
5 7 (0.46%) AMQP
5 7 (0.46%) Firewall
6 6 (0.39%) Cisco ASA
6 6 (0.39%) DHCP
6 6 (0.39%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.33%) LTE
8 4 (0.26%) RFID
9 3 (0.20%) DMARC
9 3 (0.20%) HTTPS
9 3 (0.20%) Hyperconnected
9 3 (0.20%) Modbus
9 3 (0.20%) SNMP
9 3 (0.20%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 197 (12.86%) NoSQL
2 189 (12.34%) MongoDB
3 182 (11.88%) PostgreSQL
4 90 (5.87%) MySQL
5 81 (5.29%) SQL Server
6 75 (4.90%) Relational Database
7 73 (4.77%) Elasticsearch
8 58 (3.79%) DynamoDB
9 49 (3.20%) Azure SQL Database
10 43 (2.81%) Amazon RDS
11 38 (2.48%) Redis
12 33 (2.15%) BigQuery
13 30 (1.96%) Big Data
14 23 (1.50%) RDBMS
15 12 (0.78%) Pinecone
16 10 (0.65%) DB2
16 10 (0.65%) Power BI
17 7 (0.46%) Hadoop
18 6 (0.39%) Data Lake
18 6 (0.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 192 (12.53%) Git
2 141 (9.20%) GitLab
3 129 (8.42%) Jenkins
4 58 (3.79%) TeamCity
5 44 (2.87%) JUnit
6 43 (2.81%) JIRA
7 36 (2.35%) Cucumber
8 31 (2.02%) CircleCI
8 31 (2.02%) Cypress.io
9 30 (1.96%) Mockito
10 29 (1.89%) Maven
11 24 (1.57%) Claude Code
12 18 (1.17%) SonarQube
13 15 (0.98%) Selenium
13 15 (0.98%) Vite
14 14 (0.91%) Bitbucket
14 14 (0.91%) JMeter
15 8 (0.52%) Visual Studio
16 7 (0.46%) NUnit
16 7 (0.46%) REST Assured
General
1 441 (28.79%) Finance
2 298 (19.45%) Social Skills
3 162 (10.57%) Banking
4 130 (8.49%) Public Sector
5 100 (6.53%) Law
6 96 (6.27%) Analytical Skills
7 85 (5.55%) Retail
8 73 (4.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 53 (3.46%) Financial Institution
10 46 (3.00%) Back Office
11 35 (2.28%) Telecoms
12 24 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
13 18 (1.17%) Billing
13 18 (1.17%) Legal
14 17 (1.11%) Advertising
14 17 (1.11%) Marketing
15 15 (0.98%) Games
16 14 (0.91%) Aerospace
17 12 (0.78%) Front Office
18 9 (0.59%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 523 (34.14%) Developer
2 405 (26.44%) Senior
3 321 (20.95%) Software Engineer
4 223 (14.56%) Architect
5 205 (13.38%) Lead
6 138 (9.01%) Full-Stack Developer
7 132 (8.62%) Java Developer
8 123 (8.03%) Senior Developer
9 108 (7.05%) Senior Software Engineer
10 106 (6.92%) Java Engineer
11 101 (6.59%) .NET Developer
12 86 (5.61%) Solutions Architect
13 64 (4.18%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 59 (3.85%) Software Developer
15 55 (3.59%) Lead Developer
15 55 (3.59%) Principal Engineer
16 50 (3.26%) DevOps Engineer
17 46 (3.00%) C# Developer
17 46 (3.00%) Senior Java Engineer
18 45 (2.94%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 334 (21.80%) React
2 327 (21.34%) .NET
3 279 (18.21%) RESTful
4 267 (17.43%) Node.js
5 254 (16.58%) Spring
6 230 (15.01%) Spring Boot
7 220 (14.36%) REST
8 195 (12.73%) Kafka
9 127 (8.29%) AngularJS
10 112 (7.31%) .NET Core
11 102 (6.66%) ASP.NET
12 98 (6.40%) Vue
13 89 (5.81%) gRPC
14 85 (5.55%) HTML
15 77 (5.03%) ASP.NET Core
16 75 (4.90%) CSS
17 66 (4.31%) RabbitMQ
18 65 (4.24%) .NET Framework
19 53 (3.46%) JSON
19 53 (3.46%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 428 (27.94%) Cloud Native
2 262 (17.10%) Distributed Systems
3 110 (7.18%) Product Ownership
4 81 (5.29%) Enterprise Software
5 63 (4.11%) Legacy Systems
6 55 (3.59%) Greenfield Project
7 46 (3.00%) Video\Live Streaming
8 45 (2.94%) Over-the-Top Content
9 38 (2.48%) Algorithms
10 37 (2.42%) Data Structures
11 28 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
12 26 (1.70%) Blockchain
12 26 (1.70%) Distributed Architecture
13 25 (1.63%) Public Cloud
14 22 (1.44%) Mobile App
15 21 (1.37%) Legacy Applications
16 20 (1.31%) AI Agents
16 20 (1.31%) PKI
17 19 (1.24%) Onboarding
18 18 (1.17%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 90 (5.87%) Linux
2 41 (2.68%) Windows
3 20 (1.31%) Unix
4 9 (0.59%) Android
5 5 (0.33%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.33%) CentOS
5 5 (0.33%) Debian
5 5 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.33%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.26%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.065%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 758 (49.48%) CI/CD
2 629 (41.06%) Agile
3 571 (37.27%) Software Engineering
4 560 (36.55%) DevOps
5 388 (25.33%) Containerisation
6 378 (24.67%) Full-Stack Development
7 360 (23.50%) Mentoring
8 311 (20.30%) Test Automation
9 296 (19.32%) Continuous Improvement
10 293 (19.13%) Event-Driven
11 286 (18.67%) Problem-Solving
12 283 (18.47%) AI
13 270 (17.62%) Infrastructure as Code
14 198 (12.92%) Scrum
15 182 (11.88%) Coaching
16 180 (11.75%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 180 (11.75%) Technical Leadership
17 173 (11.29%) Computer Science
18 172 (11.23%) Clean Code
18 172 (11.23%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 519 (33.88%) Java
2 404 (26.37%) Python
3 334 (21.80%) JavaScript
4 327 (21.34%) SQL
5 306 (19.97%) C#
6 243 (15.86%) TypeScript
7 129 (8.42%) Go
8 51 (3.33%) Scala
9 48 (3.13%) C++
10 47 (3.07%) PHP
11 42 (2.74%) Bash
12 32 (2.09%) C
13 28 (1.83%) Ruby
14 24 (1.57%) PL/SQL
15 23 (1.50%) Rust
16 19 (1.24%) Kotlin
16 19 (1.24%) PowerShell
17 18 (1.17%) Shell Script
18 14 (0.91%) Groovy
19 11 (0.72%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 182 (11.88%) Degree
2 172 (11.23%) Security Cleared
3 111 (7.25%) SC Cleared
4 98 (6.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 59 (3.85%) AWS Certification
6 28 (1.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 28 (1.83%) Azure Certification
7 27 (1.76%) DV Cleared
8 25 (1.63%) CISSP
9 23 (1.50%) Master's Degree
10 20 (1.31%) TOGAF Certification
11 16 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
12 14 (0.91%) DBS Check
13 11 (0.72%) AWS Certified Developer
13 11 (0.72%) CISM
14 8 (0.52%) PhD
15 6 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
16 5 (0.33%) GIAC
16 5 (0.33%) ISTQB
16 5 (0.33%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (6.66%) QA
2 38 (2.48%) Accessibility
3 33 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 32 (2.09%) GDPR
5 24 (1.57%) PCI DSS
6 23 (1.50%) NIST
7 21 (1.37%) SOC 2
8 14 (0.91%) GRC
9 11 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
10 10 (0.65%) NCSC
10 10 (0.65%) WCAG
11 8 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 5 (0.33%) IFRS
14 3 (0.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 3 (0.20%) ISO 9001
15 2 (0.13%) SEPA
15 2 (0.13%) SLA
16 1 (0.065%) Data Quality
16 1 (0.065%) Solvency II
System Software
1 451 (29.44%) Docker
2 14 (0.91%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.20%) Firmware
4 2 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.065%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 486 (31.72%) Kubernetes
2 291 (18.99%) Terraform
3 86 (5.61%) Grafana
4 85 (5.55%) Ansible
5 47 (3.07%) Prometheus
6 25 (1.63%) Argo
7 23 (1.50%) Kibana
8 17 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
9 13 (0.85%) Puppet
10 12 (0.78%) Cilium
11 9 (0.59%) HP Fortify
12 4 (0.26%) Packer
12 4 (0.26%) Podman
12 4 (0.26%) Rancher
13 3 (0.20%) Istio
13 3 (0.20%) Nagios
14 2 (0.13%) MIIS
14 2 (0.13%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 161 (10.51%) Microsoft
2 66 (4.31%) Google
3 53 (3.46%) Oracle
4 45 (2.94%) Typelevel
5 22 (1.44%) OpenAI
6 21 (1.37%) Dynatrace
7 18 (1.17%) Splunk
8 16 (1.04%) AppDynamics
9 14 (0.91%) IBM
10 12 (0.78%) Red Hat
11 11 (0.72%) CrowdStrike
12 10 (0.65%) Guidewire
13 9 (0.59%) Cisco
13 9 (0.59%) Salesforce
13 9 (0.59%) SAP
14 8 (0.52%) Adobe
15 7 (0.46%) Atlassian
15 7 (0.46%) HubSpot
16 6 (0.39%) F5
16 6 (0.39%) ServiceNow